What is a public offer

A public offer is a proposal by a legal or natural person to conclude a specific civil law contract. It implies a proposition addressed to specific entities expressing clearly the intentions of this legal or natural person who offers a product or service.

Any contract must be concluded in the following order. One party sends another proposal to conclude a contract (or offer), and the other accepts this offer or refuses. Sometimes such actions can occur simultaneously. Then the parties come together and sign the contract, which means consent to the offer.

But this is not always the case. Therefore, there is a time gap between acceptance and supply.

Signs of the offer:

- it must have certainty;

- must show the direction of the person to conclude the contract;

- contain all the essential aspects of the contract.

A public offer is also the advertisement of a service or product in the media or other sources of informative nature. It is an appeal to an indefinite number of people with a formal offer of this product or service.

A person who has performed the necessary actions to accept such a type of contract (for example, a person who has applied for a particular goods or services) may require the provider to discharge debt obligations.

The public offer contains only the will of one party directing the offer. Therefore, the answer of the opponent is of decisive importance. In order for a contract to be considered a prisoner, the absolute consent of that person is necessary. Otherwise it will not work.

A contract of an offer for the provision of services can be "accepted" by a person. An acceptance is a positive reaction of a person to an offer addressed to him, it is the answer that she accepted it. It can be unconditional or complete.

Silence can not be accepted for acceptance, except for cases that are prescribed by law, the customs of business turnover. It happens that the previously held business relations between the parties are taken into account. Acceptance is also the commission of the person who received the offer to perform the conditions specified in the contract (this may be the unloading of goods, the performance of various works, the provision of services, the payment of any amount of money, etc.).

The performance of actions that describes a public offer under acceptance is deemed sufficient to define a contract as a prisoner. Thus, the payment for the service (or fulfillment of other conditions of the offer) together with the text of the offer contract is recognized as a legally concluded agreement. Seals and signatures on the offer usually does not happen, but one of the parties may require this for accounting.

An example of an offer: advertising, as well as other proposals addressed to an inappropriately defined circle of persons. The contract with the proposal must contain all the essential characteristics. In addition, it clearly should be visible the will of the person offering the service. In federal legislation on advertising, such an offer is also prescribed. It is valid for two months from the beginning of the distribution of promotions, unless the offer provides for a different period.